A Language

Elisabeth Frink was born in 1930 and studied at Guildford and at Chelsea Art Schools from 1947 to 1953. Whilst she was still a student in London, the Tate Gallery purchased a sculpture from her first gallery show which was to mark the beginning of a long and impressive career. A language and choice of subjects, together with a large number of public commissions undertaken over the forty or so years of her working life, had assured Frink's place as one of the foremost artists of her generation. The work has been shown widely in Britain, North America and Europe, and in 1997 the Tate Gallery purchased four large sculptures, each for different and distinctive periods of her career.